Printed Textiles Design 1 (10 credit points)

Course Times & Enrolment

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Course Summary

This course introduces you to the basic technical skills necessary to design and print furnishing or fashion fabric. Using a contemporary colour palette, you will become familiar with various screen-printing techniques and consider the creative process from initial research and drawings through to a printed fabric. With guidance, you will prepare a screen and expose a selection of your own patterns and images onto it.

Please note - this is a credit course and has an integrated digital component. All students enrolled on credit courses are required to matriculate through the university student system EUCLID. If you do not do so you will not be able to access information provided by your tutor nor will you be able to submit work for assessment. Please read our Studying for Credit Guide, Rules and Regulations for more information.

Course Details

Pre-requisites for enrolment

No previous experience in printed textiles required.

Special Information

Essential materials you will need to bring to the first class:

* Cutting knife / Scalpel,

* Masking tape,

* Apron,

* Pencil.

Materials and equipment provided for students as part of the course and included in course fee:

N/A

Materials and equipment available for purchase during the course:

* Flock and Foils

Essentials materials and equipment students will need to provide themselves:

* Sketchbook,

* White paper,

* Black drawing and mark making materials, i.e. pen, ink, paint, nibs, sponges,

* Tippex,

* Scotch magic tape,

* Fabric (This should be preferably white / cream or pale colours only),

* Research (Gather images / inspiration / theme).

Additional recommended materials and equipment students can provide:

N/A

Content of Course

The course teaching is delivered over weekly class sessions totalling 27.5 hours. Depending on the specific timetable of the occurrence of the course, this will either be delivered over ten weeks of 2.75 hour class sessions, eleven weeks of 2.5 hour class sessions or five weeks of 5.5 hour class sessions. Over the class sessions the course will cover:

A brief tour of the Textiles department and talk on health and safety. An introduction to basic screen-printing and how to use blank screens with paper stencils. Students will then have the chance to experiment with some of the techniques from the demonstration.
Students will learn how to prepare a screen ready for printing and will begin creating imagery of their own to expose onto screen.
These sessions will involve creating final imagery and students will expose their imagery onto screen.
For the remainder of the course, students will develop and produce designs by experimenting with their screens and fabrics, using the various techniques and processes learnt.

Teaching method(s)

This course will be based and delivered in specialist design studios or workshops and will typically include a range of practical exercises, introductions to techniques, processes and concepts, and set projects which lead to more focused and personal exploration.
Each week, students’ progress will be monitored and supported by the tutor who will negotiate and agree a ‘directed study plan’ for work to be undertaken out with the class hours each week. This will include researching a range of suggested artists or designers and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness of the discipline being taught as well as how to annotate and evidence this within a sketchbook and practical outcomes.
Teaching will include practical demonstrations, one to one tuition, group discussions and critiques.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:

RESEARCH

research, develop and design informed visual ideas suitable for printed textiles works;
PRACTICE
consider the language of colour, image and pattern applied to a range of printed textiles techniques and process;
PRESENT
produce and print a range of their own designs onto different fabrics or wearable garments.

Sources

Core Readings

Elle Decoration Magazine, UK, London: Hachette Filipacchi UK.
World of Interiors, UK, London: Conde Nast UK.
Vogue, UK, London: Conde Nast UK.
Cole, D., 2008, Textiles Now, London : Laurence King Publishing.

Web Sources

www.patternity.co.uk

www.style.com

www.flickr.com

www.tumblr.com

www.vogue.co.uk

www.ameliasmagazine.com

www.pinterest.com

www.printpattern.blogspot.co.uk

Class Handouts

Course information will be provided on enrolment and handouts provided during the course.

Assessment

Details of the Art and Design assessment requirements can be found on the short course website. Please click on the following link for more information: Submission and Assessment Information

Studying for Credit

If you choose to study for credit you will need to allocate significant time outwith classes for coursework and assessment preparation. Credit points gained from this course can count towards the Certificate of Higher Education.

Queries

If you have questions regarding the course or enrolment, please contact COL Reception at Paterson's Land by email COL@ed.ac.uk or by phone 0131 650 4400.

Student support

If you have a disability, learning difficulty or health condition which may affect your studies, please let us know by ticking the 'specific support needs' box on your course application form. This will allow us to make appropriate adjustments in advance and in accordance with your rights under the Equality Act 2010. For more information please visit the Student Support section of our website.